HW90/13

Letter: J. Eliot (London) to Richard How II (Aspley). About his searches into Thomas Farmborough's identity

14 Aug. 1770

From: 1770 To: 1770

- Marriage, 13 Jan. 1662/3 at St. Vedast's Church, Foster Lane. - Births of their children Thomas & Mariabella recorded in Parish Register of St. Olave’s, Silverstreet, Mugwell St. Quaker Register of Marriages, Grace Church St, in the entry of Marriage of Peter Briggins & Mariabella Farmborough, Thos. Farmborough is described as citizen & baker of London, which agrees with several old deeds, 1690 -1700. Records of the Bakers' Company: 10 May 1647. Thomas Farmborough, son of Thomas Farmboeough of Anson under Hill, Oxon., yeoman, bound apprentice to Daniel Shawe. Suggests that when he changed his occupation from baker to chairmaker he may still officially called himself baker, because there was no chairmaker's company to call himself after. Proposes to rely on an attested statement by a friend of the family, Samuel Bodington, that Thomas Farmborough was a cane chair maker & lived in Paul's Church Yard.

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How, Richard,
Eliot, John,
Farmborough, Thomas,
Farmborough, Mariabella,
Briggins, Peter,
Shawe, Daniel,
Bodington, Samuel

business correspondence, specific marriages, marriage registers, Quakers, City of London Gracechurch Street, baker, apprenticeship